Saturday, June 27, 2009
The Day is Here!!
Thursday (6-25-09) Karen received her first load of fish for the season. Catching big trout at this Ranch is not hard because they are stocked here. It is catch & release in the river. You can have one fish per angler per day in the two ponds on the ranch.
A Run for the Water
Can you see the fish in his net? He would dip his net in the tank on the truck and then run for the water. He did not spill any, I was watching.
Great Time
It was a great time for all seeing the fish in their new home. They would stay in the area where they were put for a short time then take off. I know they want to make some fishman happy, and they will, some of them are 24+ inches long, not bad for trout, hey that is not bad for catfish.
Water Gate Closed
This is not the Water Gate Karen & Glen open, the one they opened is about twice this size & was filled up with rock & sand half way up, it was also in the river, which is why I do not have a picture of it, I have no boots, AND DO NOT WANT ANY. (Click on the picture & it will get bigger, then click on the back button to go back to the blog).
No Water
This is a water measuring device, or parshall. As you can see there is no water going through it. This is how they measure the flow. Look at the white line on the side where it is marked off in inches. Not only is there no water going through the box, there has not been any water flowing for some time.
Hard work
Glen, (the Ranch Foreman) is changing to course of the river so as to cause more flow to go to the Ranches, (more than our ranch uses this water), ditch. After they were able to open the water gate, by moving sand & rock which had the gate blocked, Glen change the flow a little to cause more water to go into the water gate, (the water flow also helped clean it out). The water in the water box came up to almost the three inch mark.
The water is starting to flow
Karen & Glen, (he is the Foreman for the ranch) are getting the water to flow again, it was very hard work, I watched from a-far, (as far away as I could get). Hey do not give me a hard time someone had to take pictures, & I do not have any rubber boots, also do not want any.
Dean Cox Family Home
Dean is Karen's husband. She runs the ranch. This home has been redone and is used as a guest house for one of the ranches in the area.
Before the Frig
Before the people had Ice Boxes or electric frigs, they used a cooler box here in CO. Now in East Texas they would put their food in wells or even streams, but here in CO they used Cooler Boxes which were placed in the shade close to a stream where it would stay cool. No it would not keep ice cream.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Rain
We received our largest rain so far this year 6-20-09, it was one inch. I want you to know it rained all day. We did not go to church Sunday because of the roads, could we have made it? Yes we could have but it would have been a mess. Today, Monday, Wilma, Tank, & I road the 4-wheeler for about 4 hours. Had a good time saw some nice country, talk about large trees we saw them.
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